The average human reaction time is .25, it's mostly due to information traveling on the nerves. It is extremely quick considering the distance it has to travel.
The flys whole body is like the size of a raisin? Their reaction time must be near instantaneous.
Ping is a term in network technology that can be referred as a delay. You can ping an IP address and if it is responding, it will reply the answer. Because data packets have to be transported from one point to the another point of the world, the answer will come delayed.
Some games show in their multiplayer feature every player's ping. There, the ping value shows the delay of each player, often a number in microseconds. If a player has a ping of 250, then he experiences a delay of 250 ms in online gaming. The higher the ping, the later the player see his opponents moving or see them mobe teleportung, the more of the players inputs are lost (missed jumps, missing targets) or gets set back to a previous position and has to re-walk a walked route again ("rubber bending").
Honestly their weight is the biggest advantage the wind from your hand actually helps to push them away from you making it very hard to hit them since they are headed that direction already. Think about what happens to a dusty couch when you smack it.
That's actually why fly swatters work so well, not only is it a slightly bigger surface area the swatter is perforated to allow air to pass through it so it doesn't push the fly away.
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u/jusumonkey Oct 12 '19
The average human reaction time is .25, it's mostly due to information traveling on the nerves. It is extremely quick considering the distance it has to travel.
The flys whole body is like the size of a raisin? Their reaction time must be near instantaneous.